At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

No need to race against time, no need to compete with God for time, life, and future.

As long as these high-yielding crops are distributed and planted widely, we can seize the future.

But he didn't.

He has no high-yield crops.

But even if not, after thousands of years, wouldn't the Chinese still be alive?

Isn't China's thousands of years of history just the history of thousands of years of struggle with the sky, the earth, and the people?

Mr. Guo cannot gamble with the future, and there is no precedent to follow in history. Neither the Qin and Han Dynasties, nor the later Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song Qi, Liang and Chen had any experience in governing such a huge territory and such a huge population.

The Wei Empire is a complete alternative, a complete historical accident.

The Wei Empire embarked on a historical track that was deflected by Guo's amazing acting skills and firm belief.

Where will this road lead in the end?

Someone Guo didn't know.

Appointing the prince to supervise the country, leaving half of the leadership team, Guo Peng took the remaining half of the leadership team on the way from Luoyang to Jizhou, and made such a thought.

People in the Spring and Autumn Period have already put forward the view that a country can be rejuvenated by adversity.

But in Guo's opinion, how can a country be rejuvenated by adversity?

Only when there is no disaster or difficulty can we develop.

But from another perspective, a state that has endured many disasters and survived tenaciously must be the most prosperous state.

Potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are good and important, but they don't necessarily have to be sold now, and they can't get them if they want to.

Now it is still a question of whether a large ship that can go all the way from Asia to South America to find high-yield crops can be built. Even if it goes, whether it can come back alive is also a question.

Hope is too slim, and it is irrational to hope for a high-yield crop, and it is a cowardly escape idea.

Without God's favor, can't I survive?

Mr. Guo doesn't believe in this evil.

Just like when he didn't believe that he couldn't handle gentry politics.

The imperial examinations have been popular in the world, and the bureaucratic groups of the imperial examinations are flourishing, and they are gradually replacing the group of scholars, which was also almost impossible at that time.

But right now, whether the Wei Empire created by himself can successfully survive with the wisdom and rules of survival passed down through the ages remains to be tested by history.

At least, Guo is very willing to believe that the Wei Empire and the brave people he created can survive with his hardworking hands.

Survival has never been easy for humans.

Even if there is no crisis in food, there will be a crisis from elsewhere.

Either from oneself or from the outside, in short, survival has always been a very difficult thing.

Fortunately, in the Wei Empire he led, no one thought survival was an easy matter.

On the sixth day of November in the tenth year of Yande, Guo Peng left Luoyang for Jizhou, accompanied by 5000 soldiers and more than 800 bureaucrats, and followed Guo Peng all the way from Luoyang to Ye County, the state capital of Jizhou, which is also the North Pole of the Grand Canal.

Today, Jizhou is a prefecture with the highest proportion of Li and Shu officials in the entire Wei State. Wei County is the seat of the state government, from the prefect of the county to the head of the village and township, all of them are from Li Shu.

Liu Di, the prefect of Wei County, was an official Guo Peng admired very much. He wanted him to make great achievements, and then he was directly promoted to the central government as a high-ranking official, setting an excellent example.

Now it seems that Liu Di did not live up to Guo Peng's expectations of him. He is almost 50 years old, but he still works hard on the front line.

Obviously, Liu Di has not forgotten how he came all the way, and he is deeply in awe and grateful for this dreamlike reality.

He walked with Guo Peng on the construction site of the Grand Canal in Yexian County. Guo Peng was very satisfied when he watched the canal workers who were prisoners of war laboring hard on the construction site wielding various tools.

"Have these prisoners of war worked well? Have they ever made trouble? Or have they escaped and rebelled?"

"It has happened before, and being well-behaved is not counted, but I follow the method given by His Majesty to divide and rule, use prisoners of war to rule prisoners of war, use Karasuma people to rule Karasuma people, and use Xianbei people to rule Xianbei people.

Choose the most diligent and sweet-talking captain as the captain, let him domineering, let him not have to work, and can drive others to work, and soon, those prisoners of war workers will hate this person so much. "

Liu Di said with a smile: "Generally, our people are not directly responsible for management, but assign tasks to those small leaders, let them do it, and then be responsible for checking and accepting on time.

Good acceptance will be rewarded, and those who do not do well will be removed from their positions and replaced by another person. The former team leader will always be tortured to death quickly, and the cycle repeats. "

Guo Peng nodded.

"Very good, if this is the case, it will not arouse the real resistance of these workers, and it can properly vent their anger, allowing them to continue to work honestly.

By the way, I heard that several prisoners of war die every day in other counties and counties, but here you only die three in a month at least. How do you do it? "

Guo Peng asked Liu Di.

Liu Di replied slowly: "I don't feel pity for these people, I just feel that it's too wasteful to let them die in vain. Many people can live for a long time as long as they eat more or rest for a while, and they can still live for a long time." Use for a long time.

But they want to exhaust them to death early in order to save a little money, so that when there are any big projects that need to employ people in the future, the local people will have to be conscripted into corvee, which will inevitably affect agricultural production, which is not good. "

"Yes, Not Bad."

Guo Peng agrees with Liu Di's statement: "Many places do not take this into consideration, they only focus on a certain place, and do not consider the interests of the local people in the long run.

The slower these prisoners of war died and the longer they lived, the more things they could do, and the more people could be relieved of their servitude, which was also good for production.

Things always have to be done by people. When there are prisoners of war, people don’t need to be conscripted to do corvee, but when there are no prisoners of war, people have to be conscripted to do corvee.I thought this was not advisable. "

Having said this, Guo Peng immediately called Pang Tong, the attendant of the South Study Room who was accompanying him, and ordered him to draft an edict and issue it to all officials in the world responsible for managing prisoners of war labor.

Guo Peng asked them to improve the treatment of prisoners of war workers, at least two meals a day, one dry meal and one thin meal.

Then set a strict limit on the number of deaths of prisoners of war, and strictly order them to take turns to work, so as to reduce the number of deaths of prisoners of war and increase the sustainable use of prisoners of war.

Where there are too many people dying, they must be held accountable.

Where there are few dead people doing good work, then rewards will be given.

At the same time, the number and number of corvettes collected by local governments are strictly limited, and local governments are not allowed to abuse the power of collection and collection to disturb the military training and daily farming of the people.

Governments along the Grand Canal must keep this requirement firmly in mind, and someone from Guo will continue to search for it.

If there is a place that does not abide by it well, does not adopt new regulations to arrange work, and destroys the 100 million prisoners of war that Guo worked so hard to fight, whoever will be responsible.

By the way, those with poor accommodation conditions need to be improved. Poor accommodation conditions can easily lead to plagues. If plagues occur somewhere, someone from Guo will have the heads of the officials in charge.

It can be said that after being an emperor for so long, no one knows the horror of the plague better than someone like Guo.

Although Mr. Guo has been advocating to promote people to develop hygiene habits, small-scale plague infections are still unavoidable just like small-scale locust plagues over the years.

In some places, small-scale infectious diseases will occur, and then the local government will detect them in time and immediately isolate them, thereby isolating the danger.

Once this kind of infectious disease breaks out, people often don't know the source or how to treat it. After isolation, it won't take long for those patients to die, and then burn their bodies, and the outbreak of this infectious disease is over.

Not sure why.

Having witnessed many such cases with his own eyes, Guo Peng felt that the plague in ancient times was by no means such a simple matter.

Many large-scale infectious diseases that may also exist in modern times also broke out in ancient times, but the technical means at that time could not let the ancients know what disease they were suffering from and how it originated.

But how it ends is definitely certain—the plague is over when the patients are quarantined and die.

Guo Peng does not have a microscope and modern medical equipment, so he has no way to study these infectious diseases from the perspective of viruses and bacteria. Apart from isolation, there is really no way to deal with these sudden infectious diseases.

Because of the problem of information dissemination, it is difficult to find patient zero to ask what he did. The source and chain of infection cannot be determined at all. All they can do is to isolate.

The doctors of the Great Medical Center tried to find some clues and use some medicines from the symptoms of the patients' death, but it didn't make much sense. In the end, most of the sick patients died.

All that remains is the records of the Great Medical Center.

Guo Peng asked the Great Medical Center to record the time, place, number of people of each infectious disease outbreak, as well as the patient's symptoms and death, in triplicate, and keep them separately for later inspection.

But so far, it may be that Guo is well prepared, or the Wei Empire is lucky. For the time being, there has been no large-scale mobility plague that has occurred with the flow of business travel and population.

Because Guo Peng popularized the concept of infectious diseases and the importance of isolation to local grassroots officials year after year, day after day, basically every time an infectious disease occurs, local officials can react relatively quickly and carry out isolation.

This is undoubtedly fortunate.

chapter 1370 one thousand 280 Yangzhou is no longer the Yangzhou of the past

Because it is impossible to study and treat infectious diseases pathologically, all Guo Peng can do is prevent and isolate them.

Guo Peng's "Three Nos" campaign of not drinking raw water, eating raw food, and defecating in public has also blossomed in many areas.

All villages, townships and counties regard these three things as key propaganda targets to publicize.

At the same time, in order to promote the habit of drinking boiled water and eating hot food and reduce the fuel burden, Mr. Guo is also simultaneously promoting the production and sales of briquettes.

Using the existing technology, Guo ordered the coal collected from various places to be made into briquettes, so that it can enter the homes of ordinary people, reducing the dependence on wood fuel and the destruction of forest trees in the northern region to a certain extent.

For this reason, Guo Peng ordered Dongchang to invest in the establishment of coal mining and coal-making factories in various coal-producing areas, and to introduce a large number of prisoner-of-war laborers to mine and smelt coal, so as to expand production and promote it to the whole society.

With the addition of cheap coal, drinking boiled water and eating cooked food is not an empty slogan, but a real change.

Otherwise, the people would not be able to afford fuel, and would still have to drink cold water and eat raw food.

Fuel is also a big expense. There is not enough fuel, not to mention lighting at night, even cooking water and cooking is a problem. Poor people who cannot afford fuel can directly drink raw water and eat raw food.

This is how the disease arises.

Guo can't just tell them not to do such things, but not help them solve the problem fundamentally, so that their daily life is seriously affected, and they can't even afford to eat.

This kind of behavior is too hooligan and meaningless, and it will arouse public anger instead.

So someone Guo ordered Dongchang to invest and build a factory, and use the power of the state to produce and sell coal on a large scale, in order to reduce the price of coal and bring it down to the price of cabbage, so that more people can afford it.

If you can afford fuel, you can drink boiled water and eat cooked food, and you can reduce the harm from parasites and infectious diseases.

In this way, the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases can be controlled indirectly.

The ever-decreasing number of infectious diseases and their areas of incidence in recent years have shown the positive significance brought about by the popularization of coal.

After making a tour of Jizhou, Guo Peng led the team all the way south along the construction site of the Grand Canal.

After that, it crossed the river and entered the Henan area, and then followed the canal project from the north all the way to the Huainan area, and even the Jiangnan area.

In the Henan section, the canal sections in some places have already been built, and the project was delivered ahead of schedule to the Canal Office for acceptance.

Most of these areas are responsible for widening the natural rivers or repairing the artificial rivers built by the predecessors. There is no need to dig again, so the work is naturally fast.

In some places, luck is not good, and the river needs to be re-dug according to the drawings.

How wide the river is, how deep the river is, and how many people work day and night to make it look good.

Looks like there's still a long way to go before these places get the job done.

At the beginning, Yang Guang gave five months to repair the middle section of the Grand Canal, but Guo was not so cruel, so he gave them a lot of time.

After the initial repairs are completed, there will be follow-up adjustment work, trial operation after the ship is opened, and so on.

When everything is over, some special economic areas will also develop along the banks of this river. In the future, I don't know what it will look like.

But in any case, this is what Guo must do.

Guo Peng did not spend this New Year's Eve in Luoyang, but chose to spend it in Jiangnan.

In Jiangnan, I celebrated the New Year with Gu Yong, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, and a group of Yangzhou officials.

Gu Yong has been serving as the governor of Yangzhou since Zhang Liao wiped out the Sun regime. It has been more than ten years, and there is no better candidate to choose.

At that time, the situation in Yangzhou required Gu Yong, the greatest common divisor with the dual attributes of local people and Yuan Cong, to govern.

For Gu Yong, this is also a kind of maximum double trust.

Indeed, Gu Yong did not disappoint Guo Peng's trust in him.

Over the years, he cooperated with Zhang Liao in Yangzhou to attack the mountains and barbarians, and opened up the unexplored territory south of Hangzhou Bay, turning what was included on the map into the real possession of the Wei Empire.

At this time, his main task was to help Zhang Liao prepare and transport strategic materials such as grain, grass and military equipment.

Then it is to resettle the mountain bandits pulled from the deep mountains and old forests in the newly opened areas, and let them return to the flat land to produce and increase the population.

With the cooperation of the two, the population of Yangzhou has increased by one million in a few years.

Yangzhou's pioneering actions greatly expanded the non-traditional Han Empire's area of ​​influence south of Hangzhou Bay.

They burned the primitive jungle here on a large scale, and then reclaimed the wasteland, turning the wasteland into arable land for growing food.

Just a few years ago, Yangzhou opened up millions of acres of new arable land and opened up a large amount of living space that can accommodate the population.

As a result, Yangzhou gradually changed from a wild state that was not valued in the south of the Yangtze River to a tax-paying state that was valued by the central court, and gradually became an important state worthy of its vast jurisdiction.